Joseph Hall Quotes

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.

The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.

Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin.

Sins cause harm and repentance removes the cause

Sister, I won't ask for forgiveness, my sins are all I have.

Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent.

Though we may now think some sins light and little, if the Lord awaken the conscience, we shall feel even the smallest sin heavy upon our souls.

Sin will usher in the greatest and the saddest losses that can be upon our souls.

I think what's dangerous is the idea that someone can wash away your sins.

It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.

It iz comparitively eazy tew repent ov the sins that we hav committed, but tew repent ov thoze which we intend to commit, is asking tew mutch ov enny man, now days.

I have sinned against my brother the ass.

That sorrow for sin that keeps the soul from looking towards the mercy seat is a sinful sorrow.

He that does not repent, sins again.

Temptation can be tormenting, but remember: The torment of temptation to sin is nothing to compare with the torment of the consequences of sin. Remorse and regret cannot compensate for sin....though sins can be forgiven immediately - the consequences can last a lifetime

The word 'sin' is beautiful; it comes from a root which means 'forgetfulness'. You may not be able to see the connection between forgetfulness and sin, but there IS a connection: forgetfulness means unawareness, unconsciousness.

Sin has been pardoned at such a price that we cannot henceforth trifle with it.

If thou hast sinned, lie not down without repentance; for the want of repentance, after one has sinned, makes the heart yet harder and harder.

Even if I want I cannot make you say sorry to God.

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals